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we have not heard a word since neither mcconnell. nothing has happened. >> i should note that senator reid was due for a news conference later this afternoon. that has since been canceled. perhaps the senate majority leader has decided to do his talking behind closed doors and hammer out a deal. greg: filled with metaphors, no doubt. what a republican saying about the status of the fiscal cliff negotiations? reporter: they have been pretty quiet so far. we know the speaker of the house and the republican leadership team in the house is due for a conference call with members that are still back in their home districts later this hour. we expect senate republican leader mitch mcconnell to be on the senate floor. the top of the next hour, so we should get some insight from him as well. some of the aides have suggested that eerie read should talk less and legislate more. meanwhile, a house republicans suggested -- well, it's not so good. >> the house is actually extend these tax rates for everybody in the entire country, which is exactly
we have not heard a word since neither mcconnell. nothing has happened. >> i should note that senator reid was due for a news conference later this afternoon. that has since been canceled. perhaps the senate majority leader has decided to do his talking behind closed doors and hammer out a deal. greg: filled with metaphors, no doubt. what a republican saying about the status of the fiscal cliff negotiations? reporter: they have been pretty quiet so far. we know the speaker of the house...
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by the way, ultimately neither does baron or mcconnell. we are watching all of the prolific spending, the irresponsibility come crashing down around our heads. the markets cannot suffer much more of the irresponsibility. the i am pennsylvania maturity and the nonsense. we cannot continue to pay all of these bills. we are talking about a reckoning that is at hand. we call it the fiscal cliff taint's here. shannon: we can only hope the men and women of washington will come to the table and act like adults and think of country more than anything else. >> even if they don't do that the markets and the fiscal reality will bring them by the name -- bythe napes of their ne. what we have to hope is it happens before the markets crash in disappointment. shannon: when my parents found out i overextend my credit card in college. that didn't go away. lou dobbs, great to see you. >> reporter: i'll about it wasn't more than $5 or $10. >> we have taken a step forward. we are going to send a message around the world that marijuana prohibition has failed.
by the way, ultimately neither does baron or mcconnell. we are watching all of the prolific spending, the irresponsibility come crashing down around our heads. the markets cannot suffer much more of the irresponsibility. the i am pennsylvania maturity and the nonsense. we cannot continue to pay all of these bills. we are talking about a reckoning that is at hand. we call it the fiscal cliff taint's here. shannon: we can only hope the men and women of washington will come to the table and act...
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. >> senator mcconnell and i had a solid agreement last sunday. it was the president who derailed that agreement. it's time for the president to tell us what he's for. it's not for the president to outline how we get out of this cul-de-sac he has driven us into. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. megyn: new evidence that one of the democrats' favorite lines against the romney-ryan ticket may be falling short. we have heard a lot about class politics. groups are going after romney's success and ryan's push to cut spending. does that resonate with voters in pollster frank luntz just found out with focus groups. >> if you talk about the priorities and the values of the middle class the public responds. but fighting for hard-working taxpayers is a higher priority than defending the middle class because we all think of ourselves as taxpayers. but we tests an ad that just came
. >> senator mcconnell and i had a solid agreement last sunday. it was the president who derailed that agreement. it's time for the president to tell us what he's for. it's not for the president to outline how we get out of this cul-de-sac he has driven us into. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. megyn: new...
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the problem is you have people like mitch mcconnell who has a famous quote saying the number one priority of himself as a republican leader in the senate is to make sure that barack obama is a one-term president. very hard to being bi-partisan when nobody wants to cooperate with you on the other side and that becomes problematic. >> for his first two years barack obama had huge majorities in the congress and he was able to ram through whatever he wanted. >> no. >> also remember very close to when he first started as president he leaned over to the republicans and said, i won. he also told a moderate democrat who opposed the stimulus and voted against it, don't think we are not keeping score, brother. this is not a guy who has carried out his 2004 promise in that big speech he gave at the dnc again about now a red america or a blue america we are the united states of america or even the 2008 barack obama who presented himself as this transcendent guy who was going to bring us all together. he has done the exact opposite, julie and you know it. megyn: let me jump in. when the first lady is
the problem is you have people like mitch mcconnell who has a famous quote saying the number one priority of himself as a republican leader in the senate is to make sure that barack obama is a one-term president. very hard to being bi-partisan when nobody wants to cooperate with you on the other side and that becomes problematic. >> for his first two years barack obama had huge majorities in the congress and he was able to ram through whatever he wanted. >> no. >> also...
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go off the so-called fiscal cliff mitch mcconnell says their motivation is something much different than a tax debate. >> make no mistake, what the democrats are proposing today is an entirely avoidable high stakes game of chicken. with the single minded goal of taking more money from those to earn it for government to waste. with the rest of us seeing the worst economic recovery in modern times, democrats use another opportunity to use a crisis to grow the government, and that's what they are focused on. jenna: if he's right, is this really a strategy? then the question is is it a good one for the democrats to threaten across the board tax hikes and major layoffs? a fair & balanced debate coming up later. another alert now from capitol hill, this time on a money laundering scandal involving one of the world's largest banks. hsbc announcing in the last hour that it is now in the process of closing thousands of accounts in the caymen islands, just one of several places the bank allegedly allowed dirty funds to be laundered. hsbc executive david bagley resigning from his post after a senat
go off the so-called fiscal cliff mitch mcconnell says their motivation is something much different than a tax debate. >> make no mistake, what the democrats are proposing today is an entirely avoidable high stakes game of chicken. with the single minded goal of taking more money from those to earn it for government to waste. with the rest of us seeing the worst economic recovery in modern times, democrats use another opportunity to use a crisis to grow the government, and that's what...
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her remarks echo mitch mcconnell, who took an even tougher time today. criticizing the president for staging a series of campaign style events instead of what he says would be leadership. joining me now to discuss that is the dog show. a former pollster for president clinton and cohost of campaign insiders here on the fox news channel. he is also a fox news contributor. so this is how real america is going to be affected if this takes place. she seems to be suggesting, that he is not talking to the right people. he needs to be dealmaking and leading and inspiring the folks on capitol hill to follow. doug? >> i absolutely agree, megyn. the president has won the election. but the bottom line is that he got 51% of the vote. it is hardly an overarching mandate. 40% voted against him and he has to bring the country together. the way you do that is by compromising. the republicans have put revenue on the table. i think that the president can put entitlements on the table. megyn: he says that he will. >> he says he will, but we have to get specificity and decis
her remarks echo mitch mcconnell, who took an even tougher time today. criticizing the president for staging a series of campaign style events instead of what he says would be leadership. joining me now to discuss that is the dog show. a former pollster for president clinton and cohost of campaign insiders here on the fox news channel. he is also a fox news contributor. so this is how real america is going to be affected if this takes place. she seems to be suggesting, that he is not talking to...
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now a group of powerful senate republicans, including senate minority leader mitch mcconnell are challenging the irs about what is behind it all. peter johnson jr. is a fox news legal analyst and joins us for some expertise. i want to start by looking at a letter that came from senate democrats in february. they reached out to the irs saying you might wanted to look at some of these groups, they are abusing donations. it sounds like they have. >> it seems like i'm back in the nixon time with the invocation of executive privilege and the allegations of abuse of the irs by political opponents. they are asking the irs what are you doing to 501c4 organizations which are charitable organizations, usually social welfare organizations, or civic leagues who have the ability to engage in political activity? it shouldn't be their primary activity but they have the right under the law. they also have the right, the donors to those organizations to be anonymous, and not to be available in washington d.c. for enemies of their viewpoint to go in and take their names down. and so what the senate officials
now a group of powerful senate republicans, including senate minority leader mitch mcconnell are challenging the irs about what is behind it all. peter johnson jr. is a fox news legal analyst and joins us for some expertise. i want to start by looking at a letter that came from senate democrats in february. they reached out to the irs saying you might wanted to look at some of these groups, they are abusing donations. it sounds like they have. >> it seems like i'm back in the nixon time...
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joining with senate republicans led about it republican leader mitch mcconnell who said this is wrong-headed policy. >> somehow they thought doing this would set up some kind of political win for them which frankly i don't understand. i can't imagine anybody giving them any high fives for not lowering gas prices. but that was obviously the plan. >> reporter: as the bickering continues, they didn't move forward on that legislation and gas prices continue to go up. triple aaa says the national average has gone up 20 consecutive days, now inches towards an average of $4 a gallon nationwide. alisyn: maybe they will be listening to your report and stop the bickering. our next guest is worried the removal of these tax incentives will decrease tax production and cost america jobs. the president made the argument that he want to transfer the $11.7 billion that go to these oil companies to other things such as deficit reduction and clean energy development. what's wrong with that argument? >> first of all you are taking await subsidies from the oil and gas companies. once that's taken away gas prices
joining with senate republicans led about it republican leader mitch mcconnell who said this is wrong-headed policy. >> somehow they thought doing this would set up some kind of political win for them which frankly i don't understand. i can't imagine anybody giving them any high fives for not lowering gas prices. but that was obviously the plan. >> reporter: as the bickering continues, they didn't move forward on that legislation and gas prices continue to go up. triple aaa says the...
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i acknowledge that mitch mcconnell said his number one priority was to deny barack obama a second term, and i acknowledge barack obama's finally doing what he thinks is right and not necessarily what the republicans -- megyn: i mean, the point in the introduction was does the new tweet by the re-election campaign, trying to get back to that message, you know, is it a day late and a dollar short? are the american public likely to believe that now? >> no. i think the message is shopworn and old because now he does have a record. this is a man who had huge democratic majorities in the congress in both houses for his first two years. he was able to get done whatever he wanted -- >> no, he didn't. >> so the unifying message of 2004 and 2008, i think, has dissipated because when you see the record over the last few years, megyn, you see a man who is run on dividing by class, by gender, by race. he hasn't united this country at all. in fact, he needs the division -- megyn: think about it, because you saw that message, we played it a few times of the president, then-senator at the dnc back in
i acknowledge that mitch mcconnell said his number one priority was to deny barack obama a second term, and i acknowledge barack obama's finally doing what he thinks is right and not necessarily what the republicans -- megyn: i mean, the point in the introduction was does the new tweet by the re-election campaign, trying to get back to that message, you know, is it a day late and a dollar short? are the american public likely to believe that now? >> no. i think the message is shopworn and...
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this comes after mitch mcconnell suggested congress send a message by authorizing use of force against rawns. >> it might convince the iranians we are serious about it to vote on an authorization of force. it would be a credible step in the direction saying we view this as a serious matter. >> i'm not going to be part off rushing forward on a declaration of war. these have to be done cautiously. we have problems around this world that are so significant. we have north korea. syria, problems in egypt. let's stop throwing the word war around so casually. megyn: wendall goler is standing by with more. >> the white house often weighs in on legislation the congress is considering. but they don't want to say no, thank you for a resolution of support. it's something the president says it's not time for an hopes it never will be. spokesman jay carney defended the decision to resume talks with rawb which netanyahu warned may be a trap. it's not just republicans in congress but those on the campaign trail criticizing obama. mitt romney says administration policies gave the. >> ayatollah what the
this comes after mitch mcconnell suggested congress send a message by authorizing use of force against rawns. >> it might convince the iranians we are serious about it to vote on an authorization of force. it would be a credible step in the direction saying we view this as a serious matter. >> i'm not going to be part off rushing forward on a declaration of war. these have to be done cautiously. we have problems around this world that are so significant. we have north korea. syria,...
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presidential candidates get ahold of this, already today take a listen to the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. >> and, frankly, it's hard to even comprehend how completely out of touch he is on this issue. i mean, think about it. at the moment when, at a moment when millions are out of work, gas prices are literally skyrocketing and the middle east is in turmoil, we've got a president who's up making phone calls trying to block a pipeline here at home. it's really almost unbelievable. megyn: your thoughts? >> well, i'm not surprised -- >> mine? >> that manmade it very clear that it is his and republicans' agenda to unseat the president, so that's not a big surprise, and it's not a big surprise that he feels that way not only because he's a republican. through a lot of people -- there are a lot of people who feel that way. however, this is a president that knows more than we do, more than we do. the aftermath of what happened with bp, he doesn't want a repeat. hindsight is 20/20, and i think the president is being smart again in a preventive matter. is thnt saying no -- this isn't saying no pi
presidential candidates get ahold of this, already today take a listen to the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. >> and, frankly, it's hard to even comprehend how completely out of touch he is on this issue. i mean, think about it. at the moment when, at a moment when millions are out of work, gas prices are literally skyrocketing and the middle east is in turmoil, we've got a president who's up making phone calls trying to block a pipeline here at home. it's really almost...
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senate minority leader mitch mcconnell yesterday saying this fight is far from over. >> this is about the free exercise of religion, and under our constitution you don't take a poll to find out how people feel about a constitutional freedom. in fact, the bill of rights are designed to protect minority views. so what the overall view on the issue of contraception is has nothing to do with an issue about religious freedom. meg joining me now, peter johnson jr., and bill donahue, president of the catholic league. so you two gentlemen have been on the program before all of this and both had some issues with this plan. so we wanted to have you back on and ask you whether you are satisfied with the resolution as outlined by the president on friday. peter? >> you know, in a legal sense it is not an exemption, it is not a compromise. the federal government's decide hog's catholic and who's catholic enough. and deciding, well, listen, we're going make it easier for you, the cardinals and priests and bishops and nuns of america. you don't have to hand out drugs that induce abortions. we will ha
senate minority leader mitch mcconnell yesterday saying this fight is far from over. >> this is about the free exercise of religion, and under our constitution you don't take a poll to find out how people feel about a constitutional freedom. in fact, the bill of rights are designed to protect minority views. so what the overall view on the issue of contraception is has nothing to do with an issue about religious freedom. meg joining me now, peter johnson jr., and bill donahue, president...